Life Style & Travel

UNITED STATES—Seed is the most familiar method of propagation. However, some popular plants produce no viable seed. Some produce seed that is genetically very different from its parents. For many plant varieties, only vegetative propagation reliably produces similar copies. Such copies can grow from division, cuttings or layering. They are genetically identical clones. Layering is uncommon for nurseries because it...

San Francisco, CA – A cyclist who tragically died after a collision with a parked city vehicle in Bayview has been identified as 70-year-old Steven Bassett of San Francisco, according to The San Francisco Standard. The incident occurred on Thursday, May 30, 2024, at approximately 9:30 AM at the intersection of Newhall Street and Fairfax Avenue. The San Francisco Public...

UNITED STATES—A report from The Conversation highlights that teens spend an average of 8.5 hours looking at screens every day for gaming and using social media, while tweens aged 8 to 12 clock in 5.5 hours of screen time daily. These numbers don’t include time spent using devices for schoolwork, leading to worries from parents about the repercussions of uninhibited...

Pleasant Hill, CA – The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is actively searching for a driver involved in a severe collision on Sunday afternoon, June 9, 2024, that left one person seriously injured on southbound Interstate Highway 680 near Pleasant Hill, according to CBS News Bay Area. CHP reports that the incident occurred at approximately 2:07 PM on southbound I-680, just...

Yountville, CA – A tragic head-on collision east of Yountville resulted in one fatality and five injuries on Saturday afternoon, June 8, 2024, according to CBS News Bay Area. The driver believed responsible for the crash fled the scene on foot and is currently being sought by authorities. The collision occurred around 4:20 PM in front of Silverado Vineyards at...

UNITED STATES—Operation Success hardly qualified as an invasion—it was three weeks of psychological smoke and mirrors. It got underway. The supreme role in this theater was played by the State Department.  There were American calls for sanctions. Weapon sales to Guatemala were suddenly banned. At the Secretary of State Caine’s insistence, the president replaced his ambassador to Guatemala. This...

UNITED STATES—Most vegetation within home gardens is better than it was naturally in the wild. For many, systematic selection isolated the best from average populations. Selective breeding and hybridization improved many others. Some are too genetically compromised by breeding to produce viable seed. Feral progeny of those that are not demonstrate the divergences. Such feral progeny are generally not true...

UNITED STATES—Botanical names of the vegetation that home gardening involves may seem complicated. Some are difficult to pronounce or spell. A few seem to be as lengthy as sentences. They seem to be a foreign language because most are Latin. Some are Greek. However, they are more valid than common names. What is common here might be uncommon abroad. For...

HOLLYWOOD—Something very strange is happening in Hollywood and the American public right now. It seems ever since COVID-19 exploded onto the scene in late February, early March 2020, the notion of going to the cinema has changed vastly. When nearly everything across the United States shutdown it was a massive adjustment for Americans to understand how isolation worked, and...

UNITED STATES—This is a country where we are consumed with health and eating whether we want to admit it or not. Food is part of our daily lives and will always be. However, do you find yourself ever arguing with people over what you eat and what you do not eat. I’m having that battle currently with family members...